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by harel 3y ago
I got that book when it came out, and I quite enjoyed it. Their presentation of material was quite different at the time.
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by harel 3y ago
This wasn't available in the country I grew up in, but I just loved every computer magazine I could lay my hands on. In particular I had (and still have) an Electronic Arts catalogue from I think 1987, with all their game title, descri
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by harel 3y ago
Ok. When you have statements that are based in reality and not some pseudo utopian ideological dogma state of mind I'll be happy to discuss them.
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by harel 3y ago
I exhale co2. Should I stop breathing? Should we stop using cars all together? Stop flying? Stop using computers? Sorry but I don't operate in that absolutist way. Existence is not always fair, and it's not always without harm.
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by harel 3y ago
At scale - Facebook, google, OpenAI, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Regarding ads - Don't get me wrong - I hate obnoxious ads, i dislike moving ads, and noisy ads and colourful ads and ad-sites that farm content from other sites to show ads
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by harel 3y ago
When you said HN recommended, initially I read "YC & HN admins" recommended, but you meant "some people on HN". Look, I respect activism of this kind. But direct it where it's meaningful. It's not that I f
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by harel 3y ago
Content like that will exist, and have existed before. But large scale operations will not. Search engines, LLMs, social networks. They need a lot of money to run at scale. LLMs charge a subscription. Kagi is doing search engine which is pa
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by harel 3y ago
These are bad analogies. I can block ads on the net and still use chrome. I can choose whether ads bother me or not. I can choose if I want/agree to be tracked. My choice doesn't hurt anyone. You want to fight the ads - take on th
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by harel 3y ago
Say you stopped an ad driven web - what do you think will remain when nobody can afford to run anything at scale anymore? Would you be ok paying to use the web? I know I wouldn't.
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by harel 3y ago
Because on a daily basis, it doesn't affect me. Personally. I don't care. That's the honest answer. On days I do care, I have my means to be undetected. When the ads bother me, I switch on the pihole. Some sites don't w
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by harel 3y ago
This won't stop an advertiser driven web. Only an alternative approach that maintain provider profits. Adverts exist because we refuse to pay for every service. This doesn't offer an alternative, but presumes to know better by rem
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by harel 3y ago
As soon as you open the site in Chrome it complains that my browser is stalking me (I know and don't care) and that this site does not work with it. So I closed it. More annoying than my browser's stalking habits is the assumption
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by harel 3y ago
A while ago, In some nostalgic trip I've made a Spotify playlist of classic and classic-like tunes of the earlier sound (90s and Early 00): https://spotify.link/FidWchdd1Db
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by harel 3y ago
Your dad knows what he is talking about. I feel the same, and the sentiment is shared by many. They are having retro parties now, and new productions of the "goa" sound.
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by harel 3y ago
I kinda miss the DAT days. There was a certain aura around music and it's un-availability that is missing today when everything is available.
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by harel 3y ago
I'm mostly surprised that a post about psytrance gets over 400 upvotes on HN. I'm a former (goa/psy) trance producer (in another life and century), and recently coming back to the world of producing. Maybe I'm stuck in t
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by harel 3y ago
KPT was a slice of my late teen years, and a staple of the psychedelic trance scene. From party flyers to pretty much anything psychedelic.
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Grind – A first person shooter for Amiga 500(indieretronews.com)
323 points by harel 3y ago|141 comments
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by harel 3y ago
I still have my Sony MZ-R30 and a case full of Minidiscs. In the 90s I used to DJ from minidiscs. I had two Sony MDS-DRE1 (DJ MD players [1]) and looking back I think it was really more than a gimmick since they were really impractical to c
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by harel 3y ago
No doubt. I have a Pi400 running an Amiga emulation and another running mame. They are great. But they are not magic, and they cannot capture the essence like the real deal.
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by harel 3y ago
What I would have done for a modem in those days...
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by harel 3y ago
By the way, you could get on ebay and pick up any of those 80s computers and see what you can do with that now... I recommend an Amiga 500 :-)
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by harel 3y ago
I had my VIC20 as a hand me down from an auntie who came to visit from Paris. All the manuals were in French, not that English would have helped me at the time. C64 was king back then so I only had 1 game on a tape, and later another my fri
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by harel 3y ago
I disagree that the experience is like today's Apples, but do agree that the Raspberry Pi tried and somewhat succeeded capturing that spirit. In my view; it was absolutely glorious and completely magical. Keep in mind I was a kid when
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by harel 3y ago
All those models you ask "why not" of are exhibiting the same surge in nostalgia. I have 2 Spectrums and 2 Amigas next to me right now. It's a general surge in nostalgia to all of the computers from that era I suppose. I pers
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by harel 3y ago
This is broadly how StorJ works. I've used them before and it's a pretty cool storage solution ( https://www.storj.io )
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by harel 3y ago
I can't take it seriously when "Back to the Future" and "The Princess Bride" are not mentioned.
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Amiga C Tutorial (2022)(pjhutchison.org)
129 points by harel 3y ago|37 comments
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by harel 3y ago
I missed that statement then... And my estimate was generous.
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by harel 3y ago
It took me about a minute and more than one click to reach a page which told me what lean IS. Hint: In the Readme, it's the Home Page link, then About.

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